Andrew Wheeler Met At Least 3X With Former Clients In Violation Of Administration "Ethics Rules"

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Yeah, I know, I know, "ethics" . . .

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Wheeler — who became acting administrator after Scott Pruitt's July 6 resignation — has also attended other events that prominently included the head of a company he is currently prohibited from getting involved with, according to an E&E News review of public documents.

The string of ethically questionable encounters stand in stark contrast to the acting EPA chief's claims that he is taking pains to avoid helping his former clients advance their interests. "If I lobbied on something, I don't think it's appropriate for me to participate," Wheeler told Bloomberg News on June 27.

But the day before that interview, Wheeler's public calendar shows he participated in a "stakeholder meeting" with Darling Ingredients, a former client. The biodiesel producer paid Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting more than $1.4 million over nine years for Wheeler and the firm's other lobbyists to push changes to the renewable fuel standard as well as renewable diesel and biodiesel tax incentives, according to lobbying disclosures compiled by ProPublica.

Darling — which Faegre identified in disclosures as Darling International, the company's previous name — paid Faegre more for lobbying than any of Wheeler's other lobbying clients, except for coal company Murray Energy Corp. Which Darling representatives Wheeler met and what they discussed isn't clear from his public calendar. Darling and EPA didn't provide any additional details, and the agency hasn't responded to any of the Freedom of Information Act requests from E&E News for Wheeler's more detailed personal calendar.

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https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060091287

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1. Something of which they know nothing...

among the myriad other things of which they know nothing.